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BMW Group seems to be victim of the Everest ransomware group
[German]A reader has brought on September 18, 2025 some information to my attention that I covered in timely manner within my German blog. The Everest ransomware group lists BMW group as one of its victims. Everest claimed that a successful … Continue reading
Allianz Life hacked, majority of 1.6 million customers affected
[German]The US subsidiary of the Allianz Group, Allianz Life, has confirmed a hack with data leakage. Readers had already pointed this out in the past few days. The majority of the 1.6 million US customers have had their personal data … Continue reading
38C3: Bitlocker bypassed via vulnerabilities (Dec. 2024)
[German]A small addendum from the weekend – at the 38C3 congress of the Chaos Computer Club, Thomas Lambertz, a security expert, showed how Microsoft's Bitlocker encryption can be circumvented by "downgrading" a patched vulnerability. The way in which secret services … Continue reading
Midnight Blizzard hack: Microsoft sends notification to customers by email that ends up in SPAM folders
[German]After Microsoft's e-mail system (Exchange Online, Outlook.com) was compromised by Russian hackers from the state sponsored group Midnight Blizzard Hackers, Microsoft recently had to admit that e-mails to customers were also affected. In an attempt to inform customers, Microsoft made … Continue reading
Microsoft hacked by Russian Midnight Blizzard; emails exfiltrated since Nov. 2023
[German]Microsoft has been successfully hacked by the Russian state hacker group Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. This was noticed on January 12, 2024, but the hackers were probably in the systems for months and were able to view and … Continue reading
SolarWinds hack in 2020: US Department of Justice knew 6 months in advance
[German]Does anyone remember the supply chain attack on SolarWinds' Orion software in 2020? That sent shockwaves through the IT landscape as masses of IT systems were hacked. Now it comes out that the US Department of Justice noticed the incident … Continue reading
Lapsus$ allegedly publishes source code of Microsoft Azure, Bing and Cortana
[German]The hacker group Lapsuss$ claims to have hacked the repositories with the source codes of the Microsoft products Azure, Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana and to have extracted source code. Hours ago, it was said that Microsoft was investigating whether … Continue reading
Anonymous hacked German subsidery of russian energy gigant Rosneft, 20 terabytes of data extracted
[German]Activists of the hacker collective Anonymous have announced actions against Russian companies after the Russian army invaded Ukraine. According to media reports and an article on Anonleaks, members of Anonymous successfully hacked the German branch of the Russian energy giant … Continue reading
Tianfu Cup 2021: Exchange 2019 and iPhone hacked
[German]I think the developers at Apple and Microsoft – as well as some other software companies – will have their work cut out for them. At the Chinese Tianfu Cup 2021, which is currently (Oct. 16./17. 2021) underway, there was … Continue reading
Wave of attacks, almost 2,000 Exchange servers hacked via ProxyShell
[German]I have been waiting for this for a long time, but now the feared has happened. Since Friday, there has been a massive wave of attacks on unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers via the ProxyShell vulnerability. Huntres has already discovered over … Continue reading